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Educational equality? Not in Chicago.

The resultant continued devolution of academic achievement among those who can least afford it, in Chicago and across the country, will be emblematic of this era, in which progressives demonstrate renewed zeal for victimizing the most underserved Americans while pretending to serve them. 

Morning Report — Johnson’s tricky 2024

Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is heading into the new year facing a daunting legislative to-do list, a tiny window to get it passed and a warring GOP conference that will complicate his strategy at...

The 12 people who will most impact your small business in 2024 

There are 12 people whose decisions will impact the profits and growth for many small businesses next year.  Keep a close eye on them. 

The Army’s first-ever lead special trial counsel just got fired for behaving ethically

I have never previously thought to advise students based on the possibility that, if they take their legal careers into the armed services, they might be obligated to sacrifice professional judgement or ethical obligations in doing so. This has now changed.

Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ comes at pivotal time for Black LGBTQ community

When Leslie Hall first listened to Beyoncé’s Renaissance album, he knew it was something to behold. “With this particular album … she gave a love letter to a community that has really made the music and culture industry possible,” said Hall, director of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities program at the Human Rights Campaign...

Musk, Trump, Tapper and Hannity: 5 memorable media interviews from 2023

Will former President Trump ever concede he lost the 2020 election? Should white nationalists be allowed to serve in the U.S. military? Will X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, survive without major companies advertising on it? Those were the topics and burning questions that sparked some of the most notable shouting matches, spirited debates...

Ranking Biden’s campaign trail star surrogates

President Biden’s reelection campaign has deployed high-profile surrogates across the country to give him all the help he can get ahead of 2024. The president’s persistently low approval rating has raised concerns among Democrats over his ability to win in November — possibly in a rematch against former President Trump. To help Biden, his campaign...

Speaker Johnson enters 2024 with warring GOP factions

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) heads into the New Year facing a daunting legislative to-do list, a tiny window to get it passed and a warring GOP conference that will complicate his strategy at every turn. As the new Speaker approaches a pair of urgent deadlines to fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal...

‘Pregnancy’ used to be the focus in abortion local news stories. Now, it’s ‘vote.’

Immediately after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the most popular health- or politics-related word used in local newspaper stories about abortion...

California to fine stores that don’t have a ‘gender neutral’ kids toy section

New California law will fine retailers that don't have a gender-neutral kids section.

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